In revenge for the execution two days earlier of
French Resistance member
Samuel Tyszelman, communist activist
Pierre Georges (with Tyszleman's brother and two others) shoots and kills German naval cadet Alfons Moser at the
Barbès – Rochechouart Paris Métro station, the first killing of a member of the German military in occupied Paris, initiating a cycle of assassinations and retribution that will claim hundreds of lives.[1]
22 August - German Occupation Authority announces that anyone found either working for or aiding the
Free French will be sentenced to death.